# Make package fails for beats plugin
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-package-fails-for-beats-plugin/137953
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** beats-development
**Created:** [June 29, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-package-fails-for-beats-plugin/137953 "2018-06-29T11:39:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Manjukb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Manjukb)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-package-fails-for-beats-plugin/137953/1 "2018-06-29T11:39:45Z")
trying to build a new beats plugin
`make package` fails with bellow error
```
Working directory=/go
Copying main source folder /source to folder /go
Fetching dependencies...
Execute /scripts/before_build.sh
cp: cannot stat 'fields.yml': No such file or directory
vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/scripts/Makefile:469:
recipe for target 'prepare-package-cgo' failed
make[1]: *** [prepare-package-cgo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
'/home/smartthink/go/src/github.com/Manjukb/smartcenter'
vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/scripts/Makefile:513:
recipe for target 'package' failed
make: *** [package] Error 2
```
please let me know what might be the issue
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### Author:  [@pierhugues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pierhugues)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-package-fails-for-beats-plugin/137953/2 "2018-06-29T13:08:33Z")
Hello @Manjukb
From the message you are missing the **fields.yml** file, it should be present but
you can regenerate it by running the command`make update` and run `make package` after.
Are you running the master branch?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/make-package-fails-for-beats-plugin/137953/3 "2018-07-27T13:10:39Z")
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